Gendering migration
Subtitle: masculinity, femininity and ethnicity in post-war Britain
By: edited by Louise Ryan and Wendy Webster.
Contributors: Ryan, Louise.; Webster, Wendy.
Publisher: Ashgate; Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780754671787
Subjects: Women immigrants -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 20th century; Immigrants -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 20th century; Great Britain -- Emigration and immigration -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "The black peril" : race, masculinity and migration during the First World War / Richard Smith; title: Britain and the refugees of Europe, 1939-50 / Wendy Webster; title: Bilateral relations : British soldiers and German women / Inge Weber-Newth; title: Male and female Polishness in post-war Leicester : gender and its intersections in a refugee community / Kathy Burrell; title: Gender, race and the ideal labour force / Dolly Smith Wilson; title: Notions of "home" and belonging in Greek and Greek Cypriot communities in the UK / Venetia Evergeti; title: Becoming nurses : Irish women, migration and identity through the life course / Louise Ryan; title: Spaniards in the United Kingdom : a successful female post-industrial migration / Tony Morgan; title: Gender and generation in Pakistani migration : a critical study of masculinity / Ali Nobil Ahmad; title: No job for a grown man : transformations in labour and masculinity among Kurdish migrants in London / Sarah J. Keeler; title: Masculinity and migration : life stories of East African Asian men / Joanna Herbert.